The Panther - Posthumous Poems (Hardcover, New)

Through a series of dramatic monologues (spoken by Mary, the Angel Gabriel, Paul of Tarsus, and the aSidonian archer, a Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), the fourteen poems gathered here give life to the Jewish-apocryphal legend of aJesus, son of Panteraaathe story that Jesus was sired by a Roman soldier. Having learned of a tomb (unearthed in Germany) bearing the soldieras name, Whitehead spent the last years of his life researching and writing
about this fascinating, controversial tradition. In his introduction to the collection, renowned Biblical scholar James Tabor recounts the Scriptural, apocryphal, and archaeological
evidence upon which the story is based.